Tagging along...I like D&T arguments.

Wait...so a 'few hundred' just turned into 2500-3000? For god's sake, man, keep your story straight if you want to operate as a professional liar.

If you guys are comfortable enough sailing, you should totally do some sort of trip. I don't know where you are, but I bet there are some channel islands or barrier islands to head out to. Get a friend to join you and you guys could sail nonstop. If not, you can just drift while you sleep. I have worked on boats my whole life, but I had never been out far enough to just cut the engines, turn on the proximity alarms, and pass out for the night. It's pretty soothing.

After getting my sailing experience in on someone elses boat and dime, I dream about getting a ~35ft mono-hull and cruising around the Caribbean, if not pulling a transatlantic crossing. There is such a cool culture around it. I met so many sail-bums who just crewed boats aimlessly, and met a few more respectable fellows that captained boats to destinations as a job.

Obviously, I would go bigger and swankier for my dream craft, but I can see kicking down $10k in the next few years for a boat in decent shape. How else will I ride out the initial wave of zombie apocalypse.

I ended up meeting the guy I sailed with in a harbor bar while I was bumming around latin america. I had nowhere to be, so a couple beers later, I was on the docket as a crew member. I'm glad he wasn't smuggling coke, or rather, I am blissfully unaware of it if he did. I have never been through such customs bullshit as floating into Key West. They separated us and put us in interrogation rooms and left us sitting for a good two hours. I answered everything with a smile despite being treated like shit, and I suppose it's their job more or less, but goddamn. US Customs can suck it.

A rotation a week keeps the newbs from realizing to whom they speak.

...heh

But what about the poor dog, shoved out into that brutal heat?

I like it. The frowny face was making me feel ashamed...

I crewed a 47' catamaran prototype diesel/electric hybrid from Panama to North Carolina. It was the swankiest boat I have ever worked on, but I don't recommend guinea pigging prototypes. Typical example: our fuel filters were plumbed after the fuel pumps and some filthy Colombian diesel had us up on a sand bar about a mile off of Cuba after blowing half a dozen filter seals. You ever been in an engine compartment with six inches of diesel on the floor? Terrifying...

I just found this online: "a Crowther design, #95 – MKII, 47 ft. in length, built by Alwoplast in Valdivia, Chile.  In fact, the boat just came up from Chile under its own power so there will be experienced crew there to talk about the trip and how all the systems performed."

Experienced crew, under it's own power, my ass. I had never set foot on a sail vessel before this one, and we had to be towed into Key West because we were losing diesel like a sieve while we ran.

All bitching aside, two larger-than-California King beds, a decent galley, nice big shower and shitter, plenty of deckspace and a big ole' lounge...I wouldn't mind having one of my own...

Ass action! Ass action!

Class action! Class action!

Bulanula and I better step lightly...sandwiched in between a bunch of perma-banned users, and all. I agree that our BFL-trolling is probably the driving force behind our becoming Lord and Lady of the 'ignore' status.

Thanks for putting up the numbers, Theymos. Now I have something to aspire to.  

It's just you and me, brother. Team heavily-ignored, FTW.

I honestly can't believe that many people ignored PinkiePie. "How BTC changed my life" is *easily* the best post on this whole forum.

I just want Theymos to come back and give my count!

My phone keyboard does that to me a lot...could be the culprit, rather than SC-induced brain damage.

I just figured out this exists! Where do I rank? Bulanula and I are the only ones with dark yellow that I have come across, how is Matthew beating me on the scoreboard?

e: just got that those were the global numbers, not just for the posh 'established' crowd. I'd rather just see the numbers.

No, I cannot see the difference. Moving air within a confined space does not dissipate heat. Cross ventilation, however, does. See, those fans on each rig...they are a local phenomena, and the two window fans driving the cross-flow are the only things significantly affecting the dissipation of heat. Or are you arguing that pointing a fan at a 21.5kW heat source in a closed space will cool the space?

Just put me on ignore, brother. I am already the king of it.

Ohhh, so they implemented the 'ignore' indicator, huh?

I saw a few people with light-yellow. I am the only one I've seen the orange on. I am pretty sure that means I am the king.

Why is there a frowny face where my ignore button would be? Am I in trouble?

An evaporative cooler is not a compressor AC. One fan per rig is circulating air within the space, the two window fans provide cross-ventilation. You really can't see a difference between the two?

A window fan is a window fan...a 14" MaxFan would be referred to as a 'window fan' by exactly zero people on this planet, and that's the kind of volume he needs to be moving. As I said above, I have extensive experience dissipating heat from lighting setups. You cannot evacuate 21.5kw of heat in a closed space with two window fans when the intake is at 100F.

Just pass so_stupid's debt to Matthew.

Aaaaaand, finally, we have a succinct summary of BFL's business practices.